Francis E. Patterson

Francis Engle Patterson (7 March 1821-22 November 1862) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Francis Engle Patterson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1821, the son of Irish immigrant general Robert Patterson and the brother-in-law of John Joseph Abercrombie. He served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War and became colonel of a Pennsylvania volunteer regiment during the American Civil War, fighting at the Battle of Williamsburg and the Battle of Fair Oaks in 1862. On 2 November 1862, he shot himself as Daniel Sickles prepared to court-martial him for cowardice.